Umang in August

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The annual intercollegiate festival at Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai is all set to enthuse the youth from August 14-17, 2016. The theme of the festival this year is — Call of the Wild.

Over the years, the cultural festival has grown to become Asia’s fastest growing youth festival. Since its inception in 2000, it has strived to activate the youth of India and the rest of the world through limitless creativity.

Spread over a span of three days, the festival will cater to almost 50,000 people including 150 colleges and over 1,200 participants.

The festival — Umang’s mascot this year is Uma, a cow depicted as flying over the moon which aim motivates people to achieve the impossible and reach for more. It inspires the youth to think out-of-the-box.

In the 17th year, the festival has an array of events like performing arts, literary arts, fine arts, management events, etc. Participants can be part of different events and break the shackles of the routine. The youth can show their creativity, technical skills and intelligence for performing various tasks.

Be a part of innovative workshops wherein participants will be taught to create Google cardboard virtual reality kits to experience near-reality. A 360 degree virtual world created in just a single VR head gear.

Merge both western and desi music. Perform a medley of only two songs, one western and one Indian one go. Challenge yourself and watch the beautiful mixture of two cultures.

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